Opinions and musings on religion, philosophy, science, politics, and life from a conservative Catholic neurosurgeon.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

A feature, not a bug.

The stock market is tanking and businesses are laying off even more workers.

The Democrat plan is working just fine.

Democrats' constituencies are two: government-connected elites and government-connected poor. That was the genius of the New Deal and the Great Society. Dems created more of their constituencies, by expanding government power (the New Deal) and by markedly increasing government dependence and in fact destroying the civic and family structures that gave families independence from the government (the Great Society).

The poor have been tucked in the Democrat pocket. Now it's time for the middle class.

How to do it? Answer- make the middle class poor, or at least make the middle class depend on Big Government if they wish not to be poor.

The Democrats' worst nightmare is a free industrious society largely independent of government largesse. The Democrats' worst nightmare is prosperity, which is why they have been working feverishly to prevent it.

The looming economic collapse is a feature, not a bug, in the emerging Democrat governance.

16 comments:

"The looming economic collapse is a feature, not a bug, in the emerging Democrat governance."

It is. And were it not that me and mine will suffer right along with the fools (*) who willfully, deliberately, obstinately voted for national suicide by means of “legally” looting their fellow citizens, I’d be cheering as they get what they asked for, good and hard.

I expect that things will get very bad. And in the meantime, I fully expect them to blame us, we who have been warning against this for decades, for the inevitable result. If they can manage it, I fully expect them to persecute us.

(*) that is a moral judgment, not pointless some accusation of stupidity.

This is not rocket science. From the Democratic perspective, people getting on welfare is good news. People getting off welfare is bad news. Get on welfare and stay there!

It's not good for society, it isn't even really good for the constituents picking up the checks, but it is good for the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party. Judging by last week's election results, it's working like gangbusters.

"Our common goal is to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” the United States Department of Agriculture explains on its “Outreach Toolkits” page. “Our purpose is to ensure that those going through difficult times can feed their families healthy, nutritious food. By working as a team, we can accomplish these goals.”

"The USDA has adopted a range of strategies and programs designed to bring more people to SNAP, including taking on “pride.” A 2011 Hunger Champions Award document reveals that local assistance offices have been rewarded for “counteracting” pride and pushing more people to sign up for benefits."

[Comment: Yes, let's give awards for getting people on welfare. Pride is apparently the problem. When we're a nation full of people without a shred of pride, then they'll be satisfied that they did their job. Is there any doubt that they want the welfare rolls to swell?]

"[O]nce a state extends the [voting] franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome."Robert Heinlein (in To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

The former Confederate states (except Texas) get back more from the federal government than they put in, and their per capita income tends to put them nearer (or at) the bottom of per-capita income chart. By your trainwreck of logic, they're solidly Democratic.

Federal spending on the states is complex, and involves support for military bases, highway construction, etc that are no "dependency" issues.

Are you arguing that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, foodstamps, etc are not examples of government dependency hawked by Democrats, who benefit politically from buying the loyalty of beneficiaries of such programs?

modusoperandi, put the merkin down and pay attention. Consider MS, on of those states which "should" be Democratic by Egnor's logic, but appear strongly Republican. How can this be?

Well, for those of us with more than two neurons to rub together, it's easy to solve that tangled conundrum. If you look at the county data, the counties that receive the most Federal funding did, in fact, vote for President Lackwit.

As BF Skinner taught us in the 1950's even pigeons and Norway rats have that much sense.

"The Christian idea of the world is that it originated in a very complicated process of evolution but that it nevertheless still comes in its depths from the Logos. It thus bears reason in itself."

Benedict XVI

"The universe is not the product of darkness and unreason; it comes from intelligence, freedom, and from the beauty that is identical with love"

Benedict XVI

"We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God."

Benedict XVI

"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding."

Plato

"Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors"

Isaac Newton

"I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."Albert Einstein

"Egnorance: The Egotistical Combination of Ignorance and Arrogance" Burt Humburg

"Egnor [is] an interesting example of the religious pathology that's going to be afflicting us for probably the next century..." P.Z. Myers

"...so far Dr.Egnor seems not to grasp the folly of his situation." Steven Novella

"Michael Egnor is giving every sign of continuing the shenanigans that has already made him infamous in skeptical circles." Steven Novella

"Dr. Egnor has his own blog now. Hilarity ensues..."Orac

"Egnor probably always was an arrogant asshole, also when he was an athiest. Then he had a midlife crisis, found religion and he became an even bigger asshole."

Troy

"...it is simply impossible for me to continue to believe that the "Michael Egnor" articles are being written by a real person who really believes what he (or she) writes." Mike Dunford

"Michael Egnor comes back for another helping of whup ass..." P.Z. Myers

"Dr. Egnor's deviously clever plan to destroy Darwinism once and for all..." Orac

"Dr. Egnor regularly laid down flaming swaths of stupid ..." Orac

"...Dr. Egnor reaches a new low..." Mark C. Chu-Carroll

"Egnor's machine is uninhabited by any ghost..." P.Z. MyersSuddenly [Egnor] knows law better than lawyers, he knows biology better than biologists, he pretends to know everything better than people who have actually studied whatever it is that Egnor feels threatens his crazy religion. Troy

"This is not an excuse for Dr. Egnor's ignorance – he threw his hat into the ring, he deserves what he gets. He should have had the proper humility to stay out..."Steven Novella

"...that paragon of arrogant ignorance, Dr. Michael Egnor, is back at it again..." Mark C. Chu-Carroll

"...Michael Egnor just can't get enough of making himself look like an idiot..." Mark C. Chu-Carroll

"Dr. Michael Egnor: Neurosurgeon, Stony Brook Faculty, and all around Dishonest Twit...based on the level of intellectual integrity that he just demonstrated, he's not someone I would trust to train a dog, much less a doctor" Mike Dunford

"Two Things that Don't Go Together: Michael Egnor and Intellectual Integrity...Someone once pointed out that when a dog pisses on a fire hydrant, it's not committing an act of vandalism. It's just being a dog..." Mike Dunford